The reigning belle: A society novel

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

The novel is a domestic fiction set in England that follows the intertwined lives of the Bennet sisters as…

A Room with a View

E. M. Forster

The opening of A Room with a View places the reader amid a noisy dinner table in a Florentine pension, where…

Middlemarch

George Eliot

Middlemarch is a didactic work of fiction that weaves together the ordinary rhythms of English town and…

Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy

Louisa May Alcott

The novel is an autobiographical‑style domestic fiction that follows the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and…

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Charlotte Brontë

The work is an autobiographical‑style novel that follows the early life of an orphaned girl in England,…

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

The novel opens with a detailed account of the Dashwood family’s long‑standing estate in Sussex, introducing…